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Peter Thiel Is a Fucking Fool Peter Thiel, back in October, asked if he supported Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the U.S./Mexican border and ban Muslims from immigrating to the U.S.: I don’t support a religious test. I certainly don’t support the specific language Trump has used in every instance. But I think one…
QUEENS — One person was still detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport under President Trump’s refugee ban after thousands of people protested the executive order over the weekend, immigration lawyers said Monday morning. Lawyers at #NoBanJFK still going strong. #NoBanUSA #NotOnOurWatch pic.twitter.com/AfMh3LU112 — NoBanJFK (@nobanjfk) January 30, 2017 The executive order, which the president…
Senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway said in an interview Sunday morning that a federal judge’s ruling “really doesn’t affect” the President’s executive order banning refugees and immigrants from certain countries from entering the United States. “The judge in Brooklyn, the Obama appointee judge in Brooklyn’s stay of order really doesn’t affect the executive order at all, because…
Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, speaking with Steve Bannon, President Trump’s chief strategist. Credit Drew Angerer/Getty Images Amid protests and legal challenges over President Trump’s immigration order, the White House also found itself on the defensive this weekend about a normally routine statement about International Holocaust Remembrance Day that drew criticism and…
Dulles International Airport meets Donald Trump’s immigration order. The international arrivals hall at Washington Dulles Airport seems an unlikely place for a constitutional crisis. Located far below the soaring concrete arches designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, himself an immigrant who defined the neofuturist style of the late 1950s, it is a surprisingly modest locale…
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at rolling back regulations, fulfilling one of his campaign pledges. Federal agencies will need to revoke two regulations for every new regulation they request. The new executive order makes exceptions for emergencies and national security. Trump met with a handful of small business owners at the White House…
Constantly looking for people to punish doesn’t square with a commitment to liberty. Everything went to hell over the weekend for the immigrants and refugees who had been legally approved to live and travel in the United States but were then caught up in President Donald Trump’s terrible executive order banning them from returning back…
END CLASS=”PROGRAM-BLOCK” END CLASS=”STORY-META__ONE” END CLASS=”STORY-META__TWO” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Brothers Tim (left) and Bill (right) Jackson have been watching the initial moves of the Trump Administration with different views. Brian Mann for NPR hide caption toggle caption Brian Mann for NPR Brothers Tim (left) and Bill (right) Jackson have been…
Last Tuesday, for a few hours, Badlands National Park defied presidential orders. “Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years #climate,” it tweeted. The account went on to discuss ocean acidity, carbon dioxide and the founding mission of the century-old National Parks Service,…
Donald Trump issued a blistering response to Pope Francis on Thursday, saying it is “disgraceful” for the Catholic leader to question his faith and calling the pontiff “a pawn” for the Mexican government. “No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion or faith,” Trump said at a rally…